A brilliant, clever, thought-provoking poetry collection! I loved each bold and uncanny voice in every poem - fantastic work 🖤 @helenivory.bsky.social #BookSky #PoetrySky #Witches
Helen Ivory 🪠🐈⬛
@helenivory.bsky.social
Poet, artist. Cholmondeley Award winner. Sixth Bloodaxe collection, 'Constructing a Witch' is a PBS Winter Recommendation. I make collage and shadowboxes from broken things. I shout poems at the moon about the dark.
*clears throat* I have some mentoring slots opened up for October and November. Do come and see me on zoom! #writingcommunity #poetrymentoring nationalcentreforwriting.org.uk/events/mento...
Poetry mentoring with Helen Ivory
Looking for advice? Need feedback on your writing? Helen Ivory is an award-winning widely published poet and has worked as a tutor, workshop leader and mentor for twenty-five years. She enjoys working...
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'A bit OCD' by Vanessa Napolitano holds its finger to the pulse of a mental health matter that is more than a bit complex, but Napolitano handles it beautifully. @moette.bsky.social Read it here: inksweatandtears.co.uk/vanessa-napo... #InkSweatAndTears #Poetry #MentalHealth
*clears throat* I have some mentoring slots opened up for October and November. Do come and see me on zoom! #writingcommunity #poetrymentoring nationalcentreforwriting.org.uk/events/mento...
Poetry mentoring with Helen Ivory
Looking for advice? Need feedback on your writing? Helen Ivory is an award-winning widely published poet and has worked as a tutor, workshop leader and mentor for twenty-five years. She enjoys working...
nationalcentreforwriting.org.uk
Excited for this! Thank you, excellent @abrackenbury.bsky.social !
Alison Brackenbury@abrackenbury.bsky.social · 3mo agoTickets on sale for @poetryinaldeburgh.bsky.social 5-8 Nov! A very special place with readers I'm very keen to hear! Helped by my own 2 Lincolnshire 'witches',I'm honoured to be hosting the 11.30 a m Sunday event 'Fire Burn' with @helenivory.bsky.social, Camille Ralphs & @rebeccatamas.bsky.social.
Poetry mentoring with me? There are some April and May dates available! #writingcommunity #poetry Please share this about . . . @writerscentre.bsky.social nationalcentreforwriting.org.uk/events/mento...
Poetry mentoring with Helen Ivory
Looking for advice? Need feedback on your writing? Helen Ivory is an award-winning widely published poet and has worked as a tutor, workshop leader and mentor for twenty-five years. She enjoys working...
nationalcentreforwriting.org.uk
I have some mentoring slots all the way into July. Come and see me on zoom, let's talk about the poems you've written, the poems you want to write. Whether you are writing for yourself or publication, I can help! #writingcommunity #poetrymentoring
Poetry mentoring with Helen Ivory
Looking for advice? Need feedback on your writing? Helen Ivory is an award-winning widely published poet and has worked as a tutor, workshop leader and mentor for twenty-five years. She enjoys working...
nationalcentreforwriting.org.uk
Would you like feedback on your work or do you need help finding the right way in to a poem you've always wanted to write? There are still some spaces in March if anybody fancies?https://nationalcentreforwriting.org.uk/events/mentoring-with-helen-ivory/
🎉🎉🎉 IS&T's February #PickoftheMonth? Choose from Tim Brookes, Stephen Chapell, May Garner, Louella Lester, Rob A. Mackenzie or Surmaya Talyarkhan. 🎉🎉🎉 inksweatandtears.co.uk/february-202... #InkSweatAndTears
Happy #InternationalWomensDay2026! Poems whose speakers reveal and conceal, navigate silencing and stillness in different ways. @anitakarlakelly.bsky.social's 'Eve's Bite', 'Scold's Bridle' by C.E. Collins & 'Terms of Engagement' by @clarepainter.bsky.social. inksweatandtears.co.uk/internationa...
Happy International Women's Day! This is a collage/poem from my collection Constructing a Witch @bloodaxebooks.bsky.social #IWD2026
I have some mentoring slots all the way into July. Come and see me on zoom, let's talk about the poems you've written, the poems you want to write. Whether you are writing for yourself or publication, I can help! #writingcommunity #poetrymentoring
Poetry mentoring with Helen Ivory
Looking for advice? Need feedback on your writing? Helen Ivory is an award-winning widely published poet and has worked as a tutor, workshop leader and mentor for twenty-five years. She enjoys working...
nationalcentreforwriting.org.uk
Thanks to The Friday Poem for republishing this. I'd forgotten how open and honest I'd been! #writingcommity
The Friday Poem@thefridaypoem.bsky.social · 7mo agoWild Hearted Woman open.substack.com/pub/thefrida...
We welcome work on our theme of 'Colouring Outside the Lines' in whatever way you choose, whether it's an act of creative and playful rebellion or literally colouring beyond borders - we want to see it! Email Zakia at interns@inksweatandtears.co.uk. Submissions close 15 March.
Come and see me on zoom if you'd like some feedback on your poems or maybe some advice on finding the words for the poems that are stuck in your head. March and April dates available! @writerscentre.bsky.social #writingcommunity #poetrycommunity #blueskypoetry #poetryediting
Poetry mentoring with Helen Ivory
Looking for advice? Need feedback on your writing? Helen Ivory is an award-winning widely published poet and has worked as a tutor, workshop leader and mentor for twenty-five years. She enjoys working...
nationalcentreforwriting.org.uk
This is sooner than it was before, when I first posted it, like. I'll be reading some of my witch poems!
Helen Ivory 🪠🐈⬛@helenivory.bsky.social · 8mo agoExcited to be reading at York Literature Festival as part if the #IWD2026! maybe see you there? I'll be reading some poems from my @bloodaxebooks.bsky.social collection #constructingawitch
I really like helping people with their poems so I am excited to to be doing some mentoring for @writerscentre.bsky.social My March sessions are now open to book! #poetrycommunity #writingcommunity #blueskypoetry #poetryediting Please share!
Poetry mentoring with Helen Ivory
Looking for advice? Need feedback on your writing? Helen Ivory is an award-winning widely published poet and has worked as a tutor, workshop leader and mentor for twenty-five years. She enjoys working...
nationalcentreforwriting.org.uk
Excited to be reading at York Literature Festival as part if the #IWD2026! maybe see you there? I'll be reading some poems from my @bloodaxebooks.bsky.social collection #constructingawitch
Dare we hope it might be nearly very almost within sight of the outside edge of the beginnings of . . . . spring in England??? I mean, I am not casting a clout or owt, and I am still sewn into my winter thermals etc . . . .but maybe soon . . .
Another White Rabbit emerges! Considering jacket, waistcoat and glove colours as we speak #needlefelting #needlefeltartist
Hmm. . . am trying again with this platform but it rarely loads on my phone, and nobody seems to see my posts now. I must have fallen out of the algorithm. I wondered what that clanking noise was!
I am excited to be running a collage session for the Tilted Women Festival at @norwichartscentre.bsky.social for #IWD2026 (7-8 March). Lot's more going on, have a peek! Please Repost, spread the word! norwichartscentre.co.uk/event/tilted...
Tilted Women Festival 7 - 8 March 2026 - Norwich Arts Centre
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I've been busy making a stage prop. It was seriously giving me the ick till I added the eyes! Aversion therapy, tick! #needlefelting
If you follow me on Insta or Facebook you'd have seen the early stages of this White Rabbit I've recently pulled out of my sleeve! #needlefelting #needlefeltingartist
I've not been able to get onto Bluesky for ages. No idea why, it just wouldn't load. Anyway, hello how have you been ? Here's a poem for Valentine's from a Tarot I made a while back.
The results of the #WolvesLitFest poetry competition are now out! Thanks to our judges @martinfigura.bsky.social & @helenivory.bsky.social Congratulations to our winners, and best wishes for future success to everyone else who entered. 😊 pandemonialists.co.uk/wolves-lit-f...
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Bad weather getting you down? Brighten up your weekend by penning an entry or three for #WolvesLitFest poetry competition, judged this year by @helenivory.bsky.social and @martinfigura.bsky.social. Closes December 31st. £400 1st prize. 😊 pandemonialists.co.uk/wolves-lit-f...
